Loebner Prize 2016

Contextual test: an alternative way to measure computer ability
O Koren, N Perel – AI Matters, 2016 – dl.acm.org
… Searle (2011) points out that the winning computer (Watson) doesn’t even un- derstand that it won. It is also important to mention the Loebner Prize3, which started in 1991 to award formal implementations of the Turing Test. …

Copulating Machinery and Intelligence
P Little-Crawfish – pandoralittlecrawfish.com
… meaningless. It is “mettre la charrue avant les boeufs3”, as French people would say. 1 the article can be read at http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html 2 http://www.loebner.net 3 “putting the cart before the horse” Page 2. …

Science Fiction Is Full of Bots That Hurt People:… But these bots are here now
K Michael – IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 2016 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… andWired UK, among others ? Ian Steadman, editor, “How We Get to Next”; formerly of the New Statesman ? Bruce and Sue Wilcox, AI researcher and cyberpsychologist, respectively; Bruce created Chatscript and is a four-time win- ner of the Loebner Prize; Sue creates …

Automation, Algorithms, and Politics| Talking to Bots: Symbiotic Agency and the Case of Tay
G Neff, P Nagy – International Journal of Communication, 2016 – ijoc.org
… Developers of chat bots from the late 1990s and early 2000s aspired to make bots that were closer to humans in their conversational capacities. Albert One, Alice, and Elbot, chat bots of this era, won the Loebner Prize, an annual AI competition for the most human-like chat bots. …

Computer models solving intelligence test problems: Progress and implications
J Hernández-Orallo, F Martínez-Plumed, U Schmid… – Artificial Intelligence, 2016 – Elsevier
While some computational models of intelligence test problems were proposed throughout the second half of the XXth century, in the first years of the XXIst cent.

Covert Implementations of the Turing Test: A More Level Playing Field?
DJH Burden, M Savin-Baden, R Bhakta – Research and Development in …, 2016 – Springer
… A robotar is declared present (but unidentified) as part of a set of one-on-one conversations (the Overt Singleton test, the original Turing Test, the Imitation Game [3] as typically implemented by competitions such as the Loebner Prize [4]). …

Chatbots’ Greetings to Human-Computer Communication
MJ Pereira, L Coheur, P Fialho, R Ribeiro – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 – arxiv.org
… Chatterbox Challenge7, or, more recently, the Chatbot Battles8 that took place in 2012, are examples of such competitions, although the the most widely known is the Loebner prize9, where participants are challenged with a simplified version of the total Turing Test (Powers …

Machine Consciousness and Question Answering
J Kontos – 2016 – article.scirea.org
… My dialog with Chip Vivant The 2012 Turing Centenary Loebner Prize competition took place on May 15th 2012 at the … http://www.chipvivant.com/2012/05/15/chip-vivant-wins- the-2012-loebner-prize-competition/ as well as in our book [27]. …

The rise of social bots
E Ferrara, O Varol, C Davis, F Menczer… – Communications of the …, 2016 – dl.acm.org
… back to top Footnotes. a. www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html. b. The Curious Case of Cynk, an Abandoned Tech Company Now Worth $5 Billion; mashable.com/2014/07/ 10/cynk. c. Nielsen’s New Twitter TV Ratings Are a Total Scam. …

Modeling a Dialog System for Movie Recommendations Based on The Movie Database
KS Nenova – isl.anthropomatik.kit.edu
… He composed it by using heuristical pattern matching rules. Other popular chatterbots are the Jabberwacky 3 and Cleverbot 4, 1 www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html 2http://alice. pandorabots.com 3http://www.jabberwacky.com 4http://www.cleverbot.com 8 Page 21. 2.2. …

Principles for designing an AI competition, or why the Turing test fails as an inducement prize
SM Shieber – 2016 – dash.harvard.edu
… The most well known is the Loebner Prize Competition, held annually, though other similar competitions have been held, such as the June 2014 Royal-Society-sponsored competition in London, whose or- ganizers erroneously claimed that entrant “Eugene Goostman” had …

Syntactic filtering and content-based retrieval of twitter sentences for the generation of system utterances in dialogue systems
R Higashinaka, N Kobayashi, T Hirano… – Situated Dialog in …, 2016 – Springer
… The early systems such as ELIZA [21] and PARRY [3] used heuristic rules derived from psycho-linguistic theories. Recent systems at the Loebner prize (a chat system competition) typically use tens of thousands of hand-crafted rules [20]. …

Planning, Executing, and Evaluating the Winograd Schema Challenge.
L Morgenstern, E Davis, CL Ortiz Jr – AI Magazine, 2016 – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… The Loebner Prize Competition (Christian 2011) is in particular associated with the development of chatterbots that are best viewed as successors to ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966), the program that fooled people into thinking that they were talking to a human psychotherapist by …

Grey relational analysis and natural language processing to: Grey language processing
AS Khuman, Y Yang, S Liu – 2016 – dora.dmu.ac.uk
… and humorous manner. It won first place in the 2005 and 2006 Loebner Prize competition, an annual competition that awards prizes to the chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. Modern NLP algorithms …

Can machines think? A report on Turing test experiments at the Royal Society
K Warwick, H Shah – Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial …, 2016 – Taylor & Francis
… past. A series of tests under strict Turing rules were held at the University of Reading in 2008. Uniquely these tests were linked with the annual Loebner prize that selects between a number of competing machines. The results …

Regular Expression Based Agents for Online Collection of Human-Chatbot Interactions
L Lue, LF D’Haro – 2016 – workshop.colips.org
… This is the case of ALICE which has won the Loebner prize several times but which requires more than 40K rules [2]. 3 Sample Dialogue Sessions Next, we provide some examples of the different answers given for each agent to the same user utterance. Page 3. …

Context-Dependent Pattern Simplification by Extracting Context-Free Floating Qualifiers
MJ Wheatman – Research and Development in Intelligent Systems …, 2016 – Springer
… While there is a surfeit of chatbots maintaining conversations, fuelled by the Loebner Prize [4], Enguage is directed at utility—it is used as the user interface for the showcase app iNeed [5]. Whereas chatbots, such as ELIZA [6], are simply keyword based, or key-phrase based in …

Turing’s red flag
T Walsh – Communications of the ACM, 2016 – dl.acm.org
… 4 However, his secretary famously asked to be left alone so she could talk in private to the chatterbot. More recently a number of different chatterbots have fooled judges in the annual Loebner prize, a version of the Turing Test. …

Challenges facing the development of the Arabic chatbot
ES AlHagbani, MB Khan – First …, 2016 – proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org
… In 2008 Fred Roberts created a chatbot named “Elbot” that performed conversation by looking for synonyms and understanding the meaning of them (Amilon,2015)3. Elbot was winner for 18th Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence and was able to convince 25%(3 out of 12 …

The blurring Test
P Weil – Socialbots and Their Friends: Digital Media and the …, 2016 – books.google.com
… Tell me something human about yourself.’ When accused of failing the Turing Test he says,’Do you think computers LIKE imitating humans? No Loebner Prize for me—no, no, no and non!’But the confusion persists. MrMind said: Who or what do you think I am? …

Where Nobody Has Gone Before: Science, Technology, Society, and the Future
T McGettigan – Browser Download This Paper, 2016 – papers.ssrn.com
… into sentient beings is an entirely different matter. In 1950, Alan Turing published a seminal article on machine intelligence (?www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html?). In the article, Turing proposed a test to determine the point at which …

An Oral Exam for Measuring a Dialog System’s Capabilities.
D Cohen, I Lane – AAAI, 2016 – aaai.org
… de- bate system may be designed to frustrate and embarrass its 2http://www.loebner. net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html 3http://alice.pandorabots.com 839 Page 6. users. Secondly, even if human satisfaction was the end goal, we do …

Automatic Extraction of Chatbot Training Data from Natural Dialogue Corpora
B AbuShawar, E Atwell – RE-WOCHAT: Workshop on Collecting and … – workshop.colips.org
… User: All. ALICE: What movie did you see this year that you liked? User: I don’t have time for movies. ALICE: I thought you liked cinema. User: I did, but then you started to say stupid things. Figure 2. A sample of conversation with ALICE (from Loebner prize contest 2004) …

The importance of a human viewpoint on computer natural language capabilities: a Turing test perspective
K Warwick, H Shah – AI & society, 2016 – Springer
… In Hugh Loebner’s first instantiation of an imitation game over two decades ago (Loebner Prize 1991) staging the one-to-one, two-participant game (Table 1), the judges were instructed to restrict their questions to one specific topic for each contestant (Epstein 2009; Loebner …

A Study on English Language Tutoring System Using Code-Switching Based Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition Method
M Mazur – 2016 – eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp
Page 1. Instructions for use Title A Study on English Language Tutoring System Using Code-Switching Based Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition Method Author(s) Mazur, Michal Issue Date 2016-03-24 DOI 10.14943/doctoral.k12195 …

Creating a Conversational Interface Using Chatbot Technology
M McTear, Z Callejas, D Griol – The Conversational Interface, 2016 – Springer
… 2 AIML was developed by Dr. Richard Wallace as a language for specifying conversations with chatbots and was used by Wallace to develop the chatbot ALICE (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) which won the Loebner Prize in 2000, 2001, and 2004. …

A small paper on smalltalks: experiences in running a student-faculty colloquium series
B Heinold, F Portier, S Weiss – Journal of Computing Sciences in …, 2016 – dl.acm.org
… These include things such as fractals, Rubik’s Cubes, and creating interactive fiction games. Faculty often present on current events, like descriptions of the work of recent Fields Medal winners, the Loebner prize, and IBM’s Watson. …

A General Evaluation Framework for Text Based Conversational Agent
M Hijjawi, Z Bandar, K Crockett – International Journal of …, 2016 – e-space.mmu.ac.uk
… A special type of a CA evaluation, based on human (judges) to determine the most human-like CA among competitors, is the Loebner Prize competition [16].In 1990, the Loebner Prize was established in collaboration with the Cambridge Centre for Behavioural Studies. …

A Multimodal Chat-Bot Based Information Technology System
A Augello, A Santangelo, A Gentile, S Gaglio, G Pilato – researchgate.net
… ALICE has won three times (2000, 2001, 2004) the annual Loebner Prize which declares to “advance AI and serve as a tool to measure the state of the art”, which makes it a good candidate tool for human-like natural-language based dialogue systems. …

After Death: Big Data and the Promise of Resurrection by Proxy
MA Ahmad – Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended …, 2016 – dl.acm.org
… The effectiveness of the Turing Test and its instantiation the Loebner Prize [23] can be measured by having people (interlocutors) interact with a real person and a computer program via different terminals and then asking the inter- locutors to identify which one is a computer and …

The Future of IP Law in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
B Schafer – 2016 – HeinOnline
… today’s Siri and, crucially for lawyers, IBM’s ROSS. The famous Turing test takes the form of a dialogue – or indeed a trial, as does its modern successor, the Loebner Prize. The panel was therefore particularly pleased to see …

The Rise of the Conversational Interface: A New Kid on the Block?
MF McTear – International Workshop on Future and Emerging …, 2016 – Springer
… One of the motivations for developers of chatbots is to try to fool the user into thinking that they are conversing with another human. Competitions such as the Loebner prize, launched in 1991 by the late Dr Hugh Loebner, have the aim of finding the most human-like chatbot. …

Intelligent chatter bot for regulation search
MDL De Luise, A Pascal, B Saad, C Álvarez… – Open Physics, 2016 – degruyter.com
AbstractThis communication presents a functional prototype, named PTAH, implementing a linguistic model focused on regulations in Spanish. Its global architecture, the reasoning model and short statistics are provided for the prototype. It is mainly a conversational robot linked …

Usefulness, localizability, humanness, and language-benefit: additional evaluation criteria for natural language dialogue systems
B AbuShawar, E Atwell – International Journal of Speech Technology, 2016 – Springer
… The same policy was adopted in the Loebner prize competition, which allows users to chat with a conversational agent for 10 min: if this chatting gives the impression to users that they are dealing with a human and not a machine, that conversational agent succeeds in the …

Situated Intelligent Interactive Systems
Z Yu – 2016 – cs.cmu.edu
… It uses rhetorical strategies to elicit more information from users and was initially developed for mental therapies. Since 1990s, the Loebner Prize, an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to the chatbot considered by the judges to be the most …

Charting artificial intelligence in reality and fiction. A study of how the act of fictionalizing influences human perception of technology
CK Elmar – 2016 – bora.uib.no
Page 1. University of Bergen Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies DIKULT350 Master’s Thesis in Digital Culture Autumn 2016 Charting Artificial Intelligence in Reality and Fiction A Study of How the Act of Fictionalizing …

???? Hyperhistory, the Emergence of the MASs, and the Design of Infraethics
L Floridi – Journal of Global Media Studies Vol – gmsweb.komazawa-u.ac.jp
… Yet passing the Turing Test is not a reality at all, not even close. In fact actually if you check the latest Turing Test competition – the Loebner Prize – here is a question that was actually asked: the car couldn’t fit into the parking space because it was too small. …

Embodying metaphors in systems
S van Middendorp – 2016 – search.proquest.com
… Based on the yearly Loebner prize to test AI in random chats of 10 minutes set up according to the Turing test, no computer has yet convinced as many humans that the computers are human as Turing predicted in 1950 (Loebner 2013 Leaderboard Results, 2013; Turing,. 12. …

Turing’s Imitation Game
K Warwick, H Shah – 2016 – books.google.com
… She organised the 2006 and 2008 Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence and co-ordinated the Turing100 project at Bletchley Park in Alan Turing’s centenary year (2012) and the Turing2014 Turing Test experiment at the Royal Society, London in June 2014. Page 3. Page 4. …

DO SOCIALBOTS DREAM OF POPPING THE FILTER BUBBLE?
T Graham, R Ackland – … and Their Friends: Digital Media and the …, 2016 – books.google.com
Page 204. 10 DO SOCIALBOTS DREAM OF POPPING THE FILTER BUBBLE? The Role of Socialbots in Promoting Deliberative Democracy in Social Media Timothy Graham and Robert Ackland The electric things have their lives, too. Paltry as those lives are. …

The Brain—Your Personal Necktop Computer
B Grinde – The Evolution of Consciousness, 2016 – Springer
… So far nobody have collected the Loebner Prize set up in 1990 for the first computer to really fool the scrutiny of professional judges; that is, to pose as an adult, reasonably intelligent human. Subtleties of language seem almost impossible to program. …

The Dominant Narrative
JM van der Laan – Narratives of Technology, 2016 – Springer
… Brian Christian, author of The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us about What it Means to be Alive (2011), participated in the 2009 Loebner Prize competition— a yearly Turing test designed to evaluate how “human” our computers might be, which in …

THE OTHER QUESTION
DJ Gunkel – Socialbots and Their Friends: Digital Media and the …, 2016 – books.google.com
Page 247. 12 THE OTHER QUESTION Socialbots and the Question of Ethics David J. Gunkel Whether we recognize it as such or not, we are in the midst of a robot invasion. Autonomous machines are now everywhere and doing everything. …

The Evolution of Consciousness
B Grinde – 2016 – Springer
Page 1. Bjørn Grinde The Evolution of Consciousness Implications for Mental Health and Quality of Life Page 2. The Evolution of Consciousness Page 3. Bjørn Grinde The Evolution of Consciousness Implications for Mental Health and Quality of Life 123 Page 4. …

The Evolution of Consciousness: Implications for Mental Health and Quality of Life
B Grinde – 2016 – books.google.com
Page 1. Bjørn Grinde The Evolution of Consciousness Implications for Mental Health and Quality of Life Page 2. The Evolution of Consciousness Page 3. Bjørn Grinde The Evolution of Consciousness Implications for Mental Health and Quality of Life 123 Page 4. …

The Artificial Creation of Life and What It Means to Be Human
C Mosser – 2016 – search.proquest.com
The Artificial Creation of Life and What It Means to Be Human. Abstract. This dissertation is focused on the literary representations of the artificial creation of (human) life. This project is based on the belief that advances in bio-technologies …

Digital afterlives: From the electronic village to the networked estate
T Kneese – 2016 – search.proquest.com
Digital afterlives: From the electronic village to the networked estate. Abstract. Everyone with a web presence has the potential to live on as information. Today, numerous stories in the popular press examine the afterlives of social …